A friar who glides unnoticed to the grave,

With these bare feet, coarse robe and rope-girt waist,—

I have long since renounced your world, ye know:

Yet what forbids I weigh the prize foregone.

The worldly worth? I dare, as I were dead,

Disinterestedly judge this and that

Good ye account good: but God tries the heart.

Still, if you question me of my content

At having put each human pleasure by,

I answer, at the urgency of truth: